Chef Spotlight: Kealoha Domingo
Kealoha Domingo is the chef and founder of Nui Kealoha, a family-run company that offers food and education grounded in the traditional values and cultural practices of his Hawaiian ancestral
roots.
Spotlight: Chef Sean Sherman
Chef Sean Sherman, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He has become a leading advocate for Indigenous food sovereignty, focusing on revitalizing and promoting traditional Native foods.
Telling our Stories Through Food
We believe in the power of food to tell us about ourselves and each other. The stories of home and histories are all part of the experience at Common Ground Summit.
Spotlight: Von Diaz & Cuisines of Resilience
Von Diaz is an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, food historian, and author of Coconuts & Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South.
Food & Folklore
If we change the food, what happens to the culture?
How do we reclaim this sacred connection to food, in a world urbanized and detached, where food is wasted, and fast food insidiously served up as a survival technique?